Word: schmerler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America. As a professional explorer he had no sympathy for the whimperings reported from Paraguay. On the other hand, as museum director he was mightily concerned with the public's reaction to a Harvard traveler's troubles. The sensationalized murder of Columbia University's Henrietta Schmerler when she bungled among the Apaches (TIME, March 28, et ante) has made every institution wary of inept field agents. But Professor Barbour held his tongue until last week from Buenos Aires came a fresh despatch : "The existence of white Indians with blonde hair, who live like animals . . . was confirmed...
...grim, guttural Apache, Golney ("Mac") Seymour, undersized Redskin buck, told a Federal court in Globe. Ariz. last week how he happened to attack and kill white Henrietta Schmerler, Columbia University student, last summer (TIME...
...Department of Justice operative rode the Apache reservation for three months before he found the murderer of Miss Schmerler. A graduate student of ethnology, she had gone to live on the White River Reservation to study for her thesis. Brought to trial Prisoner Seymour had firm backing from his tribe. His bewildered 19-year-old wife, mother of two, testified in his behalf. An old patriarch called "R-14" (Indian agents can not figure out how his name should be Anglicized) donated $1,500 to hire a defense lawyer...
...that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know anything about the Schmerler case...
...indication of understanding. Having heard all he wanted, last week Federal Agent J. A. Street doffed his disguise, went to one Golney Seymour, 21-year-old tribesman, accused him of the murder. Retaining the traditional calm of his fathers, Apache Seymour confessed that he had started out with Miss Schmerler to the dance, said that when he had offered her affection she had started throwing rocks at him. Then he raped her, stabbed her, choked her, struck her with a stone, left her dead...